"The rise of the military nobles and warrior class was battering the traditional nobles and priests, driving the kingdom's political transformation forward! It was just that this kind of transformation still needed matching advances in productive forces."
As noon approached, the prayers of tens of thousands of warriors drifted over from the great camp outside the city. Xolotl listened for a moment, smiled, then found two documents from the Mining and Metallurgy Department among the kingdom's reports. The key to revolutionizing the kingdom's productive forces lay within them.
"Respected His Highness, your warrior, Nekali, reports to you: the Tingambato mining district now has eight thousand mining slaves. Among them, the six copper-mining zones, large and small, have a total of more than six thousand mining slaves. The three to four coal-mining zones have more than a thousand mining slaves. The surrounding logging camps have several hundred."
"Your Divine Revelations have always guided us! According to your instructions, your warrior has made use of more ventilation equipment and transport wheelbarrows. More furnaces over two meters high have been built in the mining district, using enlarged large bellows. Around the mining district, smelting slag from copper and stones from the mountains have also been used to build enclosed walls."
"Now, the mining district mines and smelts an average of about eight thousand jin of copper material per thousand people each month, producing a total of fifty thousand jin of copper material every month! May the Main God bless us! In two years, the mining district's copper output has increased by a full onefold!"
Seeing this, Xolotl nodded in satisfaction, quite gratified.
The quality of the copper ore in the Tingambato mining district was indeed excellent. Through a large-scale increase in mining slaves and the use of vertical furnaces and large bellows, the